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There are some easy ways to find out when your vintage Fender was manufactured.First, to get a general idea,there’s the appearance/style of the amp.There are some exceptions and some overlap, but the general idea is this: Tweeds (early 50’s to very early 60s), Browns (1960 – 1962), Blondes (1962 – 1963), Blackface (1963 – 1967), and Silverface (1967 – 1981).Up until the end of the blackface era (1967), all amps left the factory with a tube chart that had a two letter date code stamped on it.The tube chart date code works like this: the first letter indicates the year and the second letter indicates the month.

They used a code like this: 606 – 645 The date is in the last three digits, after the 606 – .The first of the three digits tells us the last digit of the year (unfortunately not decade specific) and the last two numbers tell us the week.In the above example, the transformer was made in either 1966 or 1976, week 45.Now if it’s a blackface amp, it’s a safe bet that 6 means 1966. This code can be found on the power transformer, output transformer, choke, and reverb transformer.